The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1904, Page 72

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_ ing water and live.”’ .

79 The Lutheran Pioneer.

Derrick Carver’s Bible.

Many years ago there was a crowd gathered in
the market place of a little town on the seacoast
of England. A barrel was being filled with pitch
fagots, and into it a large Bible was thrown. It be-
longed to Derrick Carver. In the Star Inn close by
he was on his knees praying, while the sheriff was
preparing to burn him. He was to be burned be-
cause he persisted in reading and treasuring the
Bible. When I was reading about Derrick I thought
to myself: ‘‘How few people would be burned in
our day for reading the Bible, even if there was a
law to that effect!’’? We do not need to burn people

to keep them from reading the Bible now. Wejust.

give them a funny paper and a lot of trashy reading
besides, every Sunday, and that does the work quite
as well.

Some of Derrick’s friends gathered around him
and tried to comfort him in that solemn hour.
Others tried to persuade him to promise not to read
the Bible any more. But to these he replied, ‘‘No,
I will not deny God’s Gospel.” :

After the fagots were lighted, and he was placed
upon them, he spied his Bible and seizing it from the
burning mass, threw it out into the crowd. Some-
one caught it and hid it, and although the sheriff
ordered it destroyed, it was carefully hidden, and

preserved from the fate of its owner. It became a °

precious relic. It is said that to-day visitors to that
town — Lewes is the name of it — are shown the
stone cell in which Derrick Carver was imprisoned
two hundred and fifty years ago, and are permitted
to touch the martyr’s Bible, which is still well pre-
served. : :

Yes, our fathers loved the Bible. Many suffered
much, some, like Derrick Carver, died, rather than
be deprived of it. In our day, however, there is

a woeful indifference in regard to the proper use of

this good Book. :
How is it with us? Do we love God’s Book?
May we all learn to love it more and more.— Sel.

Drink and Live.

A missionary in India had been speaking about
the Water of Life, and pointed to a fountain close
by where people were drinking and filling their jars.
A Moslem bystander said, ‘‘Your religion may be
compared to a little stream of water, but Islam is
like a great sea:’? ‘‘Yes,”’ replied the missionary,
“but there is just this difference; men drink sea-
water and die of thirst, while they drink of the liv-

.

Wuy, it is asked, are there so many snares?
That we may not fly low, but may seek the things
which are above. For just as birds, so long as they
cleave the upper air, are not easily caught, so thou
also, as long as thou lookest at things above, wilt
not easily be captured, whether: by a snare or by
any other device of evil. — Chrysostom.

OUR BOOK TABLE.

DER BIBLISCHE GESCHICHTSUNTERRICHT DER UNTERSTUFE.
Zwanzig Praeparationen von G. Just und Th. .Faerber.
Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price,
50 cts.

This excellent little book, written by two experienced
teachers, is intended for those who teach Bible stories to the
little ones. It will prove very helpful and suggestive, not
only to teachers and pastors in day schools and Sunday
schools, but also to parents in their homes.

PaTrRICK HAMILTON. The first Lutheran Preacher and Mar-

tyr of Scotland. By William Dallmann. St. Louis,

Mo. Concordia Publishing House Print. Price, 10 cts.

We heartily welcome this well-written, interesting, and

edifying biographical sketch, and recommend it for the fam-

ily, the Sunday school, and the young people’s library. The

booklet may be ordered from the American Lutheran Pub-
lication Board, Pittsburg, Pa.

Acknowledgment. |

Received for colored missions of Rev. D. H. Schooff from
St. Matthew’s Church in Meherrin, Va., $6.50; of Rev. K.
Kretzschmar from Mount Zion Church in New Orleans, La.,
50.00; of Rev. F. J. Lankenau from St.'Paul’s Church in New
Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. J. Kossmann from Bethlehem
Church in New Orleans, La., 25.00; of Rev. M. Weinhold
from St. Paul’s Church in Mansura, La., 10.00; of Rev. John
C. Schmidt from Grace Church in Greensboro, N. C., 12.00.

St. Louis, Aug. 10, 1904. A.C. Bureporr, Treas.

Evangelical Lutheran Colored Churches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.

St. Paul’s Chapel, 1625 Annette St., near N. Claiborne St.; F. J. Lan-

kenau, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. m.; Wednesday,
P.M.

Mount Zion Church, Franklin and Thalia Sts. ; K. Kretzschmar, Pastor.
eo iine Services: Sunday, 11 A. M. and 7.30 r. M.; Thursday,
30 P.M.
Bethiehem Chapel, Washington Ave. and Dryades St.; J. W. F. Koss-
mann, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10 A. M. and 7.30 Pp. M.; Thursday,

7.30 P. M.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

Holy Trinity Church; L. &. Thalley, Pastor.
Divine Services: Sunday, 10.30 A. of. and 8 P. M.

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